Society has gone from a time once was, when gay meant, happy and light-hearted to it now being exclusively a term for a homosexual man.In fact I can remember a time in the late 60's and up, when gay also meant both men and women, but somewhere, someone decided.."oh no, we can't have that, men are gay and women are lesbians".African Americans used to be called negroes, then in the 60's it was proclaimed with great pride they were Black, and then, that became a negative term, and we evolved into African Americans....ok great wise ones, what is a person of that race called in other countries?Can't be African-AmericanI am so confused, I've been called a whitey, a cracker, a yankee, and a no-good hootin tootin cowboy!

WTF?????

I hear some RPWL in my future to mellow my thoughts out a bit! Maybe even some Can of bis.

gay >adjective (gayer, gayest) 1 (especially of a man) homosexual. 2 relating to homosexuals. 3 dated light-hearted and carefree. 4 dated brightly colored; showy. >noun a homosexual person, especially a man. -DERIVATIVES gayness >noun. -USAGE Gay is now a standard term for homosexual, and is the term preferred by homosexual men to describe themselves. As a result, it is now very difficult to use gay in its earlier meanings carefree or bright and showy without arousing a sense of double entendre. Gay in its modern sense typically refers to men, lesbian being the standard term for homosexual women. -ORIGIN Old French gai.